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- Born:
- 1583?, Córdoba, Spain
- Died:
- 1610, Puerto de Santo María
- Notable Works:
- “Fábula de Acis y Galatea”
- “Libro de la erudición poética”
- Subjects Of Study:
- culteranismo
- poetry
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Luis Carrillo y Sotomayor
Spanish poet
Luis Carrillo y Sotomayor (born 1583?, Córdoba, Spain—died 1610, Puerto de Santo María) was a Spanish poet known as the chief exponent of culteranismo, which developed from the highly ornate and rhetorical style gongorismo, originated by the poet Luis de Góngora. In Carrillo’s treatise on poetry, Libro de la erudición poética (mod. ed., 1946), he attempted to justify his methods by claiming the merits of obscurity in poetry.
Although his life was short and his output small, he is considered to have written several fine poems. The ambitious Fábula de Acis y Galatea is his best-known work. His work was published, edited not too carefully, by his brother Alonso in 1611 and reedited in 1613.
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